Monday, April 22, 2013

The 4th OpenUp! Newsletter

We are glad to inform you that the new OpenUp! newsletter has recently been published at our new project website. You can read the last newsletter issue under this link. The 4th newsletter issue is full of interesting articles concerning different domains and topics.

If you are interested in becoming one of the OpenUp! partners or in what the benefits of membership are, you need to see the article of "A quick guide for becoming an associated partner of the OpenUp!". We have also published several interesting news from our related projects, such as Europeana, BHL, BHL-Europe and Europeana creative. For the technically-skilled audience, articles on the new BioCASe version release and the implementation of common names web-services for the OpenUp! Content could be useful.

As we mentioned at the begining, the OpenUp! project has launched a new project website. The website´s description is also included in the new newsletter. For those who are interested in nature at your surroundings, we have prepared news on a new BLE topic of “Nature at your home”, which will be published at the beginning of next week.

Traditionally, we point out to our progress in social media and interesting conferences and events and one of them is presented directly by one of our content providers, Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands.

Countless natural history treasures are deposited in museums across the world, many hidden away beyond easy access. The OpenUp! project represents a free portal to these resources, offering virtual access to over one million items of the world’s biodiversity heritage. The objects made available through OpenUp! consist of high quality photos, videos and sounds, as well as natural history artworks and specimens, and include many items previously inaccessible to visitors. Information provided through OpenUp! will be checked by scientists and made freely available through the Europeana portal at www.europeana.eu.